This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Psychology > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Status refers to: A) The role the person plays in life. B) The shared purpose of the group. C) Whether they are married or not. D) A person's position of hierarchy in a group. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A person's position of hierarchy in a group. 2. You took one look at Elijah and thought he was bright, caring, and understanding. Your behaviors subtly brought out those qualities in Elijah. How can this best be explained? A) Actor-observer bias. B) Self-fulfilling prophecy. C) Confirmation bias. D) Fundamental attribution error. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self-fulfilling prophecy. 3. Which of the following is NOT an assumption of Social Cognition? A) People are cognitive misers. B) People to seek causes of human behavior. C) Self-esteem guides human behavior. D) People constantly want change. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People constantly want change. 4. Name for any mental process involved with knowing, awareness, perception, remembering, reasoning, judgment, or problem-solving. A) Theory of Cognitive Miserness. B) Disposition. C) Attribution. D) Cognition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cognition. 5. What is social cognition? A) Effort to understand the social world. B) Effort to avoid the social world. C) Effort to complicate the social world. D) Effort to ignore the social world. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Effort to understand the social world. 6. What does a person perceive in order to evaluate another's 'warmth' stereotype A) Competition for resources. B) Status. C) Personal evaluations. D) Disgust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Competition for resources. 7. Category of people who you think you belong to & compare yourself to. A) Downward Social Comparison. B) Relative Deprivation. C) Social Comparisons. D) Reference Groups. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reference Groups. 8. A distortion of thinking involving a tendency for people to perceive information through a filter of personal experience or preferences A) Attribution Error. B) Cognition. C) Social Cognition. D) Cognitive Bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cognitive Bias. 9. Any error made when attempting to explain a cause of a behavior or event A) Attribution Bias. B) Cognition. C) Self-Serving Bias. D) None of the answers listed here is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attribution Bias. 10. Which of the following statements best describes discrimination? A) Discrimination involves positive action to support someone in a minority group. B) Discrimination involves negative action against someone in a minority group. C) Discrimination involves either positive or negative action towards someone in a minority group. D) Discrimination involves stereotyping all individuals in a minority group whilst overlooking individual differences. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Discrimination involves either positive or negative action towards someone in a minority group. 11. The tri-component model proposes that all three components must be present before it can be said that an attitude exists. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. This occurs when a person changes behavior as a result of another person asking or directing that person to change. A) Conformity. B) Social influence. C) Obedience. D) Compliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compliance. 13. I enjoy Psychology. I think it helps me learn useful information about how people think and behave. I will continue this subject in Unit 3-4. Identify the COGNITIVE component of this attitude. A) I enjoy Psychology. B) I think it helps me learn useful information about how people think and behave. C) I will continue this subject in Unit 3-4. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I think it helps me learn useful information about how people think and behave. 14. Social thought is not always completely rational because ..... A) Thinking about the social world requires effort. B) Rational thought cannot completely overcome the effects of schemas. C) Social thought is always automatic and heuristic. D) Base rates are frequently ignored. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thinking about the social world requires effort. 15. Which of the following descriptions is an example of a dispositional attribution? A) He smoked a cigarette because other people were smoking. B) He smoked a cigarette because alcohol was not available. C) He smoked a cigarette because he enjoys smoking. D) He smoked a cigarette because he was offered one. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He smoked a cigarette because he enjoys smoking. 16. Which component of attitude towards recycling involves feeling proud and responsible when sorting recyclables from trash? A) Affective. B) Behavioural. C) Cognitive. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affective. 17. Those things that are easier to recall tend to have a greater impact on subsequent judgments and decisions. Thisfact is known as ..... A) He availability heuristic. B) Evaluative thinking. C) The base rate heuristic. D) Automatic priming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He availability heuristic. 18. True or false.Automatic thinking is rooted in schemas. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. The repeated exposure theory proposes that simple, positive repeated encounters, are all that is needed to produce a positive attitude. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. This is a person's loss of his or her sense of self caused by the stimulating feeling of being in a group combined with the lack of responsibility that comes from being in a crowd. A) Deindividuation. B) Groupthink. C) Social impairment. D) Group polarization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deindividuation. 21. Which of the following statement is TRUE regarding the Implicit Association Test A) The IAT has good reliability. B) Scores on the IAT typically explain around 20% of people's behaviour. C) Test results on the IAT can change based on personal, situational and environmental factors. D) Responses are unaffected by whether people believe the IAT isdiagnostic or non-diagnostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Test results on the IAT can change based on personal, situational and environmental factors. 22. Donating money to Cancer Council Australia would be demonstrating which component of an attitude? A) Cognitive. B) Dissonance. C) Behavioural. D) Affective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Behavioural. 23. The study of how people influence & are influenced by other people. A) Self-concept. B) Social cognition. C) Self-esteem. D) Social psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social psychology. 24. An ingroup is best described as a group A) With members who have common attitudes. B) To which someone belongs. C) To which people of a similar age or with common attitudes wish to belong. D) With members who like to clash with outgroups. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To which someone belongs. 25. This is an emotional disturbance that occurs when a person's actions do not match the person's attitudes. A) Cognitive dissonance. B) Negative attitude. C) Social dissonance. D) Social negativity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cognitive dissonance. 26. People make fewer cognitive errors when they are making decisions about which of the following? A) Very serious matters (survival). B) Trivial matters (What brand of toothpaste to buy). C) Important matters (what major to select in college). D) None of the above; cognitive errors are the same for the three types of matters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Very serious matters (survival). 27. Katie is sure that she was fired because her boss was a total jerk and didn't like her. What is this an example of? A) Self-Serving Bias. B) Self-Effacing Bias. C) Internal Attribution. D) External Attribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) External Attribution. 28. Do different cultures interpret Facial Expressions differently? A) No, Some facial expressions seem to be communicated and perceived in similar ways across many different cultures throughout the world, particularly facial expressions of emotion. B) Yes, each culture has different ways of using facial expressions. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, Some facial expressions seem to be communicated and perceived in similar ways across many different cultures throughout the world, particularly facial expressions of emotion. 29. Teori yang termasuk ke dalam komponen efek referensi diri adalah ..... A) Self-verification theory. B) Simulation theory. C) Positive illusion theory. D) Terror management theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simulation theory. 30. Mark did really well on his Health SAC, but didn't do well on his Psych SAC. He said he studied really hard for his Health SAC so that's why he did well whereas there weren't enough revision lessons and that's why he did poorly on his Psych SAC. This is an example of? A) Person perception. B) Fundamental attribution error. C) Self-serving bias. D) Actor-observe bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self-serving bias. 31. The 'behavioural' part of an attitude is ..... A) Beliefs. B) Actions. C) Feelings. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Actions. 32. Motivasi mempengaruhi mode mana yang akan beroperasi. Terdapat 5 motif utama, kecuali ..... A) Belonging. B) Feeling accepted. C) Understanding. D) Trusting ingroup. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feeling accepted. 33. When we use the representative heuristic, we always incorrectly categorise people. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 34. The affective part of an attitude relates to ..... A) Beliefs. B) Feelings. C) Actions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feelings. 35. Which of the following relates to the belief an individual has that they are free to perform or not perform behaviour linked to an attitude? A) Perceived control over the behaviour. B) Strength of the attitude. C) Accessibility of the attitude. D) Social context of the attitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perceived control over the behaviour. 36. Attribution refers to A) Forming impressions of ourselves and others. B) Explaining why people act the way they do. C) Explaining why people perceive others as they do. D) Explaining why people perceive themselves and others as they do. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Explaining why people act the way they do. 37. When people get to know each other the importance of physical attractiveness as a factor in the relationship tends to: A) Fluctuate. B) Remain constant. C) Decrease. D) Increase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decrease. 38. What are the two types of attributions that can be usedto explain a person's behaviour? A) Cognitive and internal. B) External and affective. C) Internal and external. D) Cognitive and behavioural. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal and external. 39. Cognitive Dissonance refers to A) Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. B) Equilibrium in thoughts, skills and action. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. 40. What is the term for the tendency to believe that we are more likely than others to experience positive events? A) Negativity bias. B) Counterfactual thinking. C) Confirmatory bias. D) Optimistic bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Optimistic bias. 41. A belief that all members of a group share a common characteristic. A) Prejudice. B) Stereotype. C) Social loafing. D) Discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stereotype. 42. Social psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on: A) Individual thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. B) Understanding cognitive and emotional states. C) Interpreting the behaviors of others. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 43. Bagian otak mana yang kaitannya dengan perencanaan, proses informasi baru, membuat pilihan, dan fungsi bahasa? A) Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. B) Prefrontal Cortex. C) Subgenual Cingulate. D) Central Sulcus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. 44. What does the process of social cognition involve? A) Only visual information processing. B) Complex information processing. C) Simple information processing. D) Only auditory information processing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complex information processing. 45. What are the primary cues in forming first impressions? A) Physical appearance and behavior. B) Verbal communication. C) Personal achievements. D) Social status. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical appearance and behavior. 46. According to social context, what often influences us to behave inconsistently to our attitudes? A) The social situation we are in at the time. B) Our morals. C) Our memory of our attitude. D) Our personalities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The social situation we are in at the time. 47. Professor Stewart wrote a very positive letter of recommendation for a student despite his having doubts about her competence. Which theory best explains why he subsequently began to develop more favorable attitudes about the student's abilities? A) Social exchange theory. B) Scapegoat theory. C) Cognitive dissonance theory. D) Two-factor theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cognitive dissonance theory. 48. Our attitudes can form via different learning theories. These include: A) Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning & Social Learning. B) Operant Conditioning, Social Learning & Simple Exposure Effect. C) Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning & Modelling. D) Operant conditioning, Modelling, Trial & error. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning & Social Learning. 49. "Group membership (i.e., who we identify as the ingroup) at anytime is based on the most salient features in a given context." This statement reflects: A) Self Categorisation Theory. B) Social Identity Theory. C) Optimal Distinctiveness Theory. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self Categorisation Theory. 50. This occurs when a decision-making group feels that it is more important to maintain group unanimity and cohesiveness than to consider the facts realistically. A) Conformity. B) Social impairment. C) Groupthink. D) Group dynamics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Groupthink. 51. The ways in which we interpret informationabout others & then form impressions aboutthem. A) Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. B) Schemas. C) Social Perception. D) Social Identity Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social Perception. 52. What is a behavioral component of attitude towards a political candidate? A) Encouraging others to vote. B) Volunteering for the candidate's campaign. C) Feeling excited and hopeful about the candidate. D) Attending rallies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volunteering for the candidate's campaign. 53. Mary has a negative attitude towards motor bike riders. Some months ago a motorbike rider moved in next door to Mary's place. The biker had always been nice and polite to Mary on every occasion they have interacted. Mary no longer feels as negative towards motor bike riders. This can be explained by ..... A) Sustained contact. B) Equality. C) Mutual interdependence. D) Superordinate goals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sustained contact. 54. Perkembangan otomatisasi yang muncul karena latihan (practice) atau dapat disebut proseduralisasi, merupakan salah satu contoh proses pikiran dengan mode ..... A) Intent. B) Chronic Accessibility. C) Subliminal Priming. D) Conscious Priming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chronic Accessibility. 55. Motivasi yang bersifat semi-independen yang aktif ketika proses PDKT dengan gebetan adalah ..... A) BIS. B) BAS. C) BUS. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) BAS. 56. This is the strengthening of shared beliefs through discussion. A) Groupthink. B) Group polarization. C) Social influence. D) Deindividuation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Group polarization. 57. When you first meet someone, which of the following are likely to have the largest influence on your first impression? A) The person's personal bias. B) The person's physical appearance. C) The person's expectations. D) The person's speech content. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The person's physical appearance. 58. Mental processes through which people perceive & react to individuals & groups. A) Self-concept. B) Social psychology. C) Social cognition. D) Self-esteem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social cognition. 59. This proposes that many factors combine to form the right conditions for the right kind of leader. A) Great person theory. B) Transactional view. C) Transformational view. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transactional view. 60. A belief that certain groups of people have certain characteristics is called? A) An attitude. B) A perception. C) An attricution. D) A stereotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A stereotype. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesArt Humanities QuizzesClass 12 QuizzesClass 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 1Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 2Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 3Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 4Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 5Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 7Class 12 Psychology Chapter 1 Variations In Psychological Attributes QuizClass 12 Psychology Chapter 10 Industrial Organisational Psychology Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books